Title: Plugin not activating correctly
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin not activating correctly

 *  Resolved [AR_Bigelow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ar_bigelow/)
 * (@ar_bigelow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/)
 * This is a really basic question – I’ve unzipped and uploaded the svg-vector-icon-
   plugin to the plugins folder. Inside wordpress, I clicked to activate WordPress
   Icons – SVG. The plugin remains gray and doesn’t activate, although the page 
   refreshes. It still says Activate (versus switching to Deactivate).
 * I confirmed that this is specific to WordPress Icons.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-vector-icon-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-vector-icon-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919570)
 * Hi AR_Bigelow,
 * After clicking Activate, does it give you an error at all? It is only with this
   one plugin as well?
 * Very strange, I’ve never seen that issue with any plugin.
 * It could possibly be a write permission issue. Double check that your wp-content
   folder has write permissions as the plugin creates its own folder to upload icons
   to in this location.
 * Evan
 *  Thread Starter [AR_Bigelow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ar_bigelow/)
 * (@ar_bigelow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919635)
 * No error–when I click Activate, the page refreshes but nothing else happens. 
   Yes, this is the first plugin I’ve seen this happen with.
 * I’ve uploaded other plugins recently to wp-content/plugins and haven’t had any
   problems, so I’m not lead to believe that it’s a permission issue.
 *  Thread Starter [AR_Bigelow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ar_bigelow/)
 * (@ar_bigelow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919638)
 * I have WordPress 3.5 (which might be earlier than most installs for your plugin).
 * Thanks for your quick response–I’ve been working with the website more frequently(
   recently) and I’m really pleased with how helpful and grass-roots the WordPress
   community is.
 *  Plugin Author [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919663)
 * Yea , You are correct. When I created the plugin we were on version 3.7. Things
   were probably structured different back in 3.5 as far as the file structure goes.
 * Might I ask why you’re still on 3.5? I only ask because its a major security 
   issue, and there are publicly known security flaws with your site (or any site
   running 3.5).
 *  Thread Starter [AR_Bigelow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ar_bigelow/)
 * (@ar_bigelow)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919681)
 * No particular reason except that 3.5 was what the site was created in. I suppose
   it’s time for an update.
 * Thanks for your help nonetheless. Cheers!

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/svg-vector-icon-plugin_cd8d3a.svg)
 * [WP SVG Icons](https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-vector-icon-plugin/)
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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)
 * [deactivate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deactivate/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [AR_Bigelow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ar_bigelow/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-activating-correctly-1/#post-4919681)
 * Status: resolved